Sad new year for village as girls killed, cattle stolen by bandits

Security personnel at the scene where suspected bandits killed a villager in Kapkondot area, Marakwet West, yesterday. [Eliud Kipsang, Standard]

Hopes of calm in Kerio Valley were signaled on Saturday by the launch of a security surveillance drone for monitoring the movement of bandits.

But a day later, during the new year celebrations, bandits stormed Ketut village and shot dead two sisters, Martha Kibowen, 17 - a form three student at Kabulwo Secondary School and her sister Consolata Kibowen, 14, who was in Standard Seven at Kabetwa Primary School.